January 4, 2010

"Each year, the physician-editors of Journal Watch AIDS Clinical Care offer their perspective on the year's most important stories in HIV medicine. In reviewing these stories for 2009, one is struck by a remarkable sense of progress in the field, especially in prevention. ... Although there is a relative lack of novel new agents in development, the reason behind this shortage is only positive — our currently available therapies are more effective than ever, so much so that treatment guidelines are moving in the direction of recommending therapy for virtually everyone with HIV infection."

Comment: The publishers of the New England Journal of Medicine also publish Journal Watch, and offer 10 articles reviewing HIV in 2009, free for anyone (most Journal Watch articles require a subscription). The links to these 10 articles are included in the one above.